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EP3343514 - METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DIFFERENTIATING OBJECTS [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusThe application has been refused
Status updated on  09.07.2021
Database last updated on 13.09.2024
FormerExamination is in progress
Status updated on  08.02.2020
FormerRequest for examination was made
Status updated on  01.06.2018
FormerThe international publication has been made
Status updated on  01.09.2017
Most recent event   Tooltip09.07.2021Refusal of applicationpublished on 11.08.2021  [2021/32]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
35/F, Tencent Building
Kejizhongyi Road
Midwest District of Hi-tech Park
Nanshan District
Shenzhen, Guangdong 518057 / CN
[2018/27]
Inventor(s)01 / ZHOU, Jinyuan
c/o Tencent Technology (Shenzhen)
Company Limited
35/F, Tencent Building
Kejizhongyi Road, Midwest District
of Hi-Tech Park, Nanshan District / Shenzhen, Guangdong 518057 / CN
02 / WANG, Li
c/o Tencent Technology (Shenzhen)
Company Limited
35/F, Tencent Building
Kejizhongyi Road, Midwest District
of Hi-Tech Park, Nanshan District / Shenzhen, Guangdong 518057 / CN
 [2018/27]
Representative(s)Gunzelmann, Rainer
Wuesthoff & Wuesthoff
Patentanwälte und Rechtsanwalt PartG mbB
Schweigerstraße 2
81541 München / DE
[N/P]
Former [2018/27]Penza, Giancarlo
Bugnion S.p.A.
Viale Lancetti, 17
20158 Milano / IT
Application number, filing date16891260.824.11.2016
[2018/27]
WO2016CN107119
Priority number, dateCN20161010979626.02.2016         Original published format: CN201610109796
[2018/27]
Filing languageZH
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A1 Application with search report
No.:WO2017143812
Date:31.08.2017
Language:ZH
[2017/35]
Type: A1 Application with search report 
No.:EP3343514
Date:04.07.2018
Language:EN
[2018/27]
Search report(s)International search report - published on:CN31.08.2017
(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP08.10.2018
ClassificationIPC:A63F13/52, G06T15/00, G06T11/00, G06T15/50
[2018/45]
CPC:
A63F13/52 (EP,US); G06T15/04 (KR); G06T15/00 (CN,US);
G06T11/001 (EP,US); G06T11/40 (KR); G06T15/205 (CN);
G06T15/50 (CN,US); G06T5/00 (KR); G06T7/73 (US);
G06T7/90 (US) (-)
Former IPC [2018/27]G06T15/00
Designated contracting statesAL,   AT,   BE,   BG,   CH,   CY,   CZ,   DE,   DK,   EE,   ES,   FI,   FR,   GB,   GR,   HR,   HU,   IE,   IS,   IT,   LI,   LT,   LU,   LV,   MC,   MK,   MT,   NL,   NO,   PL,   PT,   RO,   RS,   SE,   SI,   SK,   SM,   TR [2018/27]
TitleGerman:VERFAHREN UND VORRICHTUNG ZUR UNTERSCHEIDUNG VON OBJEKTEN[2018/27]
English:METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DIFFERENTIATING OBJECTS[2018/27]
French:PROCÉDÉ ET DISPOSITIF PERMETTANT DE DIFFÉRENCIER DES OBJETS[2018/27]
Entry into regional phase28.03.2018Translation filed 
28.03.2018National basic fee paid 
28.03.2018Search fee paid 
28.03.2018Designation fee(s) paid 
28.03.2018Examination fee paid 
Examination procedure28.03.2018Examination requested  [2018/27]
28.03.2018Date on which the examining division has become responsible
24.04.2019Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description)
12.02.2020Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
10.06.2020Reply to a communication from the examining division
08.12.2020Cancellation of oral proceeding that was planned for 10.03.2021
10.03.2021Cancellation of oral proceeding that was planned for 16.03.2021
10.03.2021Date of oral proceedings (cancelled)
16.03.2021Date of oral proceedings (cancelled)
26.03.2021Despatch of communication that the application is refused, reason: substantive examination [2021/32]
05.04.2021Application refused, date of legal effect [2021/32]
Fees paidRenewal fee
14.11.2018Renewal fee patent year 03
14.11.2019Renewal fee patent year 04
13.11.2020Renewal fee patent year 05
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Documents cited:Search[Y]EP1391847  (SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC [JP]) [Y] 1-15 * claim 1 * * paragraphs [0029] , [0081] *;
 [Y]  - Gilberto Rosado, "Chapter 27. Motion Blur as a Post-Processing Effect", Gpu Gems 3, US, Addison-Wesley, (20070803), ISBN 978-0-321-51526-1, XP055508391 [Y] 1-15 * Sec. 27.1, 27.5 *
 [Y]  - MATTHIAS HARINGER ET AL, "Effect based scene manipulation for multimodal VR systems", VIRTUAL REALITY CONFERENCE (VR), 2010 IEEE, IEEE, PISCATAWAY, NJ, USA, (20100320), ISBN 978-1-4244-6237-7, pages 43 - 46, XP031656126 [Y] 1-15 * figure 2 * * Sec. 1, Sec. 5.1 *
 [Y]  - Unity Technologies, "Unity - Manual: Draw Call Batching", (20150101), URL: https://docs.unity3d.com/510/Documentation/Manual/DrawCallBatching.html, (20180920), XP055508562 [Y] 1-15 * page 1 *
 [Y]  - Dirk Reiners, "Scene Graph Rendering", (20020305), URL: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/8b1c/c770bbe6abfb0534b368caad589bdb94b102.pdf, (20180920), XP055508566 [Y] 1-15 * Sec. 11 *
 [A]  - MILÁN MAGDICS ET AL, "Post-processing NPR effects for video games", PROCEEDINGS OF THE 12TH ACM SIGGRAPH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON VIRTUAL-REALITY CONTINUUM AND ITS APPLICATIONS IN INDUSTRY, VRCAI '13, New York, New York, USA, (20130101), doi:10.1145/2534329.2534348, ISBN 978-1-4503-2590-5, pages 147 - 156, XP055508371 [A] 1-15 * abstract * * Sec. 5.4.3-5.5 *

DOI:   http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2534329.2534348
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